I think I’ve found my motivation for blogging.

I’ve got a friend that is really down in the dumps. It sucks. They hurt so. I grieve for their grief. I know that pain more than anyone can know.

And so, I resolve to give them something to read as often as I can until they put their hind feet on high places…

I just watched Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder for the first time and thought I’d give you my impressions while you wait for an Alice in Wonderland review.

Released in ’54, this film, though dated by an era–but by no means a period piece–remarkably had me on the edge of my seat at a times during the first act. Though it wasn’t on the level of today’s thrillers, the first act built up plenty of suspense. i wanted to know how things would play out but I didn’t want to endure the agony of having to watch good people do bad things. The psychological grip was so strong that i even considered not finishing the film because of the intensity.

When I got to the intermission (which I found odd, more on that below) I was relieved that there was a release to the tension. The second act was much less intense and faster paced. There was some excitement at the end of the film, wondering who would ultimately take the fall for what.

An interesting fact about Dial M for Murder is that it was a 3D film. The reason for the intermission is that in order to make the 3D work at the time, you had to run two projectors simultaneously. Because the projectors couldn’t hold the entire film, there was an intermission.

I don’t know if the negatives have survived or not. What’s interesting is that this film is 56 years old. According to the little featurette about 3D, 3D was heavily used in addition to what we now colloquially call widescreen at the time of the release of this film. Also interesting to note, at the time this film was released, very few theaters chose to show the 3D version because 3D was seen as a fad and people had already tired of the gimmick.

So we’ve had 3D technology for going on 60+ years and we still have to have glasses at the theater in order to utilize it? Furthermore, we’re just now talking about bringing 3D into the home and actually having a market for it?

I hope that there is much press over Dial M for Murder as 3D TVs and blu-rays enter the market. I hope that a transfer is done and that this masterpiece finally gets a day in the sun in all of its 3D glory.

Fourteen Attorneys General have filed suits against ObamaCare. Is your AG on this list? If not, contact them and get them to stand up! The fight to stop ObamaCare isn’t over yet, and we can still win!

Ken Cuccinelli – Attorney General – Virginia
http://www.oag.state.va.us/PRESS_RELEASES/Cuccinelli/32210_Health_Care_Bill.html

Troy King – Attorney General – Alabama
http://www.ago.state.al.us/news/12312009.pdf

Bill McCollum –Attorney General – Florida
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2215987420100322
http://www.examiner.com/x-37583-Hillsborough-County-Elections-2010-Examiner~y2010m3d22-Florida-Attorney-General-Bill-McCollum-says-health-care-bill-is-unconstitutional–will-sue-video

Jon Bruning – Attorney General – Nebraska
http://www.ago.state.ne.us/news/pressreleases/032210_Health_Care_statement_MR_2.pdf

Tom Corbutt – Attorney General – Pennsylvania
http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/press.aspx?id=5151

Greg Abbot – Attorney General – Texas
http://www.oag.state.tx.us/oagNews/release.php?id=3269
http://www.oag.state.tx.us/oagNews/release.php?id=3271

Henry McMaster – Attorney General – South Carolina

Robert McKenna – Attorney General – Washington
http://www.atg.wa.gov/pressrelease.aspx?&id=25402

Mark L. Shurtleff – Attorney General – Utah
http://www.atg.wa.gov/pressrelease.aspx?&id=25402

Wayne Stenehjem – Attorney General – North Dakota
http://www.ag.state.nd.us/NewsReleases/2010/03-22-10.pdf

Michael Cox – Attorney General — Michigan
http://www.ag.state.nd.us/NewsReleases/2010/03-22-10.pdf

Lawrence Wasden – Attorney General – Idaho
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/17/idaho-state-sign-law-health-care-reform/

John W. Suthers – Attorney General – Colorado
http://www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov/press/news/2010/03/22/attorney_general_joins_federal_lawsuit_challenging_health_care_mandate_0

James D. “Buddy” Caldwell – Attorney General – Louisiana
http://www.nola.com/health/index.ssf/2010/03/13_states_sue_federal_governme.html

Obamacare was supposed to apply to all Americans. Since the President is now exempt from the bill, can we submit this into evidence as violation of Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution?

It took over 6,000 pages of lies, half-truths and lawyer doublespeak to get an incomplete so-called “Health Care Reform Bill” passed. Michele Bachmann required only three-fourths of a page and eight lines of text.

Call your Congresscritter and tell them to support Michele’s Bill and put Obamacare six feet under where it belongs.

News for Democrats: we banned slavery with a Constitutional Amendment. It will take more than a phantom “health care” bill for you to bring it back.

I don’t have to wonder. We have the boy who would be king, Our Dear Leader, Supreme Dictator for Life His Royal Majesty Lord Barack Hussein Obama, The Most Merciful.

I’m considering making a slight change in blogging patterns. I haven’t made a final decision yet, but I think this is what i want to do:

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Are THESE the words of a Constitutional scholar – “I don’t spend much time focusing on procedure in the House or Senate…”?

“Mr. President, I send an unprinted Amendment to the desk, and ask for its immediate consideration,” are the exact words that any U.S. Senator can say when offering this amendment on the floor of the U.S. Senate.

This amendment, below, should be walked down to the floor of the U.S. Senate and voted on prior to any vote on the floor of the U.S. House, in order to prepare the legal battlefield for the court challenge against the Alice-in-Wonderland-like-Red-Queen, Speaker Pelosi, and her dictatorial and unconstitutional scheme to pass the Senate Health Care bill without voting on it. While we are uncertain that we will be fighting on this ground, it is essential to prepare the battlefield, if we do.

This amendment, I am reliably advised, was written by a former judge on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals who was on President Bush’s short list for the Supreme Court (Roberts beat him out) and is recently retired and is teaching Constitutional law at one of the most prestigious national law schools at University on the west coast.

So, in other words, don’t mess with the language of this amendment. Just launch it, now on whatever bill is now pending on the floor of the U.S. Senate.

START OF TEXT OF THE AMENDMENT:

Unprinted Amendment No.___ .

Intended to Proposed by Mr. _________.

Viz:

Add at the end of the bill the following new Section:

“Sec.___ . a) Inasmuch as Sections Five and Seven of Article I of the United States Constitution mandate a certain process for the enactment of a federal law and do not allow a measure to become a law by “deeming” it passed by either House of Congress, it is the Sense of the Senate and its judgment that the House of Representatives is required by the Supreme Law of the United States, to vote directly and up or down on H.R. 3590 in order to send that measure lawfully to the President, if, and only if, it shall have been approved by a majority vote of each such House taken on an identical measure; and, more particularly, it is the Sense of the Senate that, in conformity with Article I of the Constitution, the House of Representatives, unless the measure is returned to the Senate with an Amendment by the House, must vote directly on the language sent to it by the Senate precisely as it was duly enrolled at the direction of the Senate by its Enrolling Clerk, certified as an Act of the Senate by the Secretary of the Senate, and thereupon transmitted by the Senate’s Messenger to the House Chamber while the House of Representatives was in actual Session.

b) It is the further Sense of the Senate that the exact words that the Senate caused to be enrolled on parchment and taken by messenger to the House of Representatives, constitute the sole document and the only document upon which Members of the House can lawfully cast their vote, whether Yea or Nay, under the process expressly mandated by the United States Constitution; and it is also the Sense of the Senate and its judgment that to do otherwise by “deeming” rather than voting would void any purported enactment, deprive it of the force of law, justify disobedience to it, and cause irreparable violence and harm to our system of government and its fundamental law through fraud, deception, abuse of power, and usurpation of the civil rights of the People.

c) This Section maybe cited as the “Congressional Voting Rights Resolution.”.

END OF AMENDMENT TEXT.